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Uther:

Give up?!!? Never. Grandma came through Ellis Island in 1906 from County Cork...I'm to stubborn to give up.

Uther, you may be a beginner but if I remember right you have one model under your belt, while this is my first build. I'm not trying for perfection, but since this IS my first build...AND it is Victory...I might as well try to give her the effort she deserves. I figure that this "additional" effort at the very least should give me more skills that I might not otherwise have.

Was just saying in the last post that I got to be careful to maintain the integrity of my bulkheads in the areas where they have imitated pincushions. If one or more of those areas fails utterly then I will just have to attach blocks ajacent to the effected area and sand them to fit the needed profile.

I took all the pins out except the ones at the ends and put a 20 mm jig between the original battens at my constant girth bulkheads letting them pivot at the ends just to see if I could salvage them. No joy there...darnit. So I'm cooking my new battens now in a water bath at 100C using the skillet pictured earlier. Only ten battens this time instead of twelve as the two original battens just off the keel were locked into position by the future garboard strake.

Any new pictures?

Mike